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My son went to spend a few days with Grandpa. Grandpa makes a few extra bucks working with a septic tank company, digging ditches and installing tanks and doing estimates. Some of the fellows on his crew are Hispanics. My son went with Grandpa to work to earn some money and brush up on his Spanish. He learned, among other things, that he accidentally referred to his Grandpa as Grandma abuela instead of abuelo.
I remember very little of my high school and college Spanish, and of course, they don't teach you the curse words. So when one of the workers uttered "Punta" and my son asked him what that meant, the man hemmed and hawed and wouldn't answer. Ivylad told him it was a crude word for a vagina. Use your imagination Now, in the course of discussing this with my son, he asked if there was a town if Florida called this.
Ivylad confirmed it, and Ivyboy said that Gorda means "fat. And do Spanish-speaking citizens in Florida get a secret giggle out of what we named one of our towns?
